Keys of love (1)/The Rover Reclaim'd

The ROVER RECLAIM'D.

I Rambled about a twelvemonth I vow,
in search of a damlel for life,
For roving perplex'd me I could not tell how,
so I ventur'd at last on a wife.

The girls of the town each rake must well know,
imbitters the pleasures of life,
For evils on evils will consantly flow,
and makes us all wish for a wife.

A mistress it's true that's pleasing and gay,
may sweeten the troubles of life;
For evils on evils will constantly flow,
but what is all this to a wife?

In wedlock alone true p'easure we find,
to glide the rough passage thro' life,
Then chuse out a lase with a delicate mind,
and make the dear charmer a wife.

And you, O ye fair, be kind to the man,
who offers to bless you for life;
Be constant and true, and as fond as you can,
for these are the charms of a wife.

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